"If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or order someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts that for which he can get immunity?" Sotomayor asked.
"It would depend on the hypothetical," Sauer responded. "From what we can see, that could well be an official act."
Now all went smooth, as smooth as could be, I strutted and looked big, sir
And when they laid a tax on tea, I was believed a Whig, sir
I laughed at all the vain pretense of taxing at this distance
And swore before I'd pay my pence, I'd make a firm resistanceAnd this is law I will maintain until my dying day, sir
That whatsoever King will reign, I'll be Vicar of Bray, sirAmerican Vicar of Bray
X Rubicon, Trumpussolini
Il Ducebag
“Thus a sophistical distortion of the constitutional spirit wrecked constitutional freedom in Italy, setting an example for the Germany of Hindenburg and Hitler ten years later to follow; and under a Pharisaic pretence of fidelity that he had sworn to his people when ascending the throne the honest king became a perjurer…
“The Duce of Fascism, still residing in Milan, was bidden to Rome for constitutional consultation with the king…
“But now, for the first time in his life, he had known the taste of gain by bluff, of victory by threat. He repeated the stroke, which he was to repeat so many times in the years following. He declared unswervingly that he would not go to Rome, neither would he demobilize his army, unless the king pledged himself to entrust him with premiership…
“This was unconstitutional, unmistakably…”
“A ‘Doctrine of Its Own’”
“Holy is the State and the State alone. Religion, in the particular case ‘that particular positive religion that is [Evangelicalism]’, is a valuable asset of the State and must be protected and fostered as such. The State, in its turn, is not at all the embodiment of a natural necessity, nor does it coincide with the natural facts of race and nation; in which case its expanding power would be limited within the narrowness of objective bounds. The State is a creation of the Spirit, or of the Will of History. But where and how does this Spirit or Will visibly appear? Not in the God of the believer, since God, the God of [Evangelicalism], is merely an asset of the State, which definitely ‘has no theology’. Nor does it appear in the Nature of the anthropologist or geographer. Nor, finally, in the demos of the democrat or in the mass of Marx. The Spirit or Will, otherwise called State, embodies itself ‘in the few, nay, in the One’. In other words it is the despot, and the despot alone, who is the Holy.”
Goliath: The March of Fascism – G A Borgese, (1938, New York, The Viking Press) - embedded quotes of Benito Mussolini
In the end the Little Prince, Il Duce, was caught attempting escape from the chaos, wreckage, and ruin he unleashed upon Italy and the world, after thoroughly infecting US corporate and power elite. He was caught by partisans who never believed him; but he was also caught by Vicars of Bray who changed with the new tide of the wind; he was also caught by his beloved Blackshirts who now were thoroughly demoralized. They hung his naked body on a meat hook from a lamppost on the street. As his fat ass and fatter head moldered in the sun, his own sycophants of the time, his Marjorie Taylor Greens, his Lauren Boeberts, his Mike Pences, his Mitch McConnells, his Ted Cruzes, et al… None of them were there kneeling at his body praying for the salvation of their messiah. They were gone, in hiding from their own deaths that would follow. For the fascist, once the power is gone the made up reasoning is gone.
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Rubicon spent just under three years as a military Scout. During that time he was awarded the “AF Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 4 Bronze Stars, Defense Superior Service Medal, AF Good Conduct Medal, and the CIA Distinguished Service Medal” (ODNI). When he refused to kill further, he was stripped of these awards and was abandoned with his PTSD by the military and thrown away.
Sean Griobhtha (gree-O-tah) is a combat veteran. His latest book is X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars: An indictment of US Citizens: ignorantia non excusat, which details the life of Rubicon (“2.5 years of deception & death; 40+ years of locking up emotions & Truth”). It’s important that you read the Foreward (Vanguard); written by a highly intelligent woman with a heart of empathetic gold; she’ll bring you in gently, which neither Rubicon nor I would ever do.
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